Implementing different formatting for your clients using a
web application comes out of the box in Crystal Reports .NET. When designing
your report, you may notice the option Set CSS Class on the Crystal Reports menu.
You can set these classes at design time. See Figure 1 for a screen shot of
what this looks like.

Figure 1

Using the "Set CSS Class" menu option sets the CSS
class name in the property of each object for the section selected. For
instance, if I select the option AllReportObjectsInGroupHeaderSections, and set
the class name to "h1" then each object will have an "h1"
in its CSS class property set. This can be verified by right clicking on the
object and selecting Format Object.

These classes assume that you have set up the elements or CSS
class names somewhere in your aspx file. In most instances, this means that you
have defined your class names in a CSS file referenced in the aspx file
displaying your report. In design time you do not have a drop down or
intellisense for the available CSS Class names. I heartily recommend this as a
new feature Crystal can add to your product.

You can also set these classes in code. Keep in mind that
setting your classes at Design time makes it more difficult to set classes
programmatically. You need to write some code to clear each objects class at
programming time, and then you can set them. Let us see how we set your CSS
classes in code. See listing 2 for the C# code on how to set your class.

To set the class, we need to use the reportdocument object
of the report we want to display. In this application we use the Sales report,
which is part of our project. In this report we want to set the page header
section to use the h1 element in the stylesheet ourstyles.css that the
default.aspx page uses. To set the page header section we use the ObjectScope
object PageHeaderSections.

One important point to note here is that you set the CSS
style by sections. That is the scope used in the SetCSSClass. So there is not a
way to set your style by object within the report, but within sections.